Sweet :-)
What can I say, I've just had some bad experiences with app.config files in the past. Apologies for the rantish tone I took the other day
Thanks, Orion
On 16/01/2010, at 8:02 PM, Tomas Matousek wrote:
> ScriptEngine.SetSearchPaths does it for search paths.
>> A configuration file is just one of the options how to configure IronRuby. The most general API is Ruby.CreateRuntime(ScriptRuntimeSetup), where you provide a configuration object. In fact, the parameter-less Ruby.CreateRuntime and Ruby.CreateEngine just call Ruby.CreateRuntime(ScriptRuntimeSetup.ReadConfiguration()). You can write your own configuration system that produces ScriptRuntimeSetup instance from registry, MEF, yaml files, server on the Internet, or any other data provider.
>> Tomas
>> From: ironruby-core-bounces at rubyforge.org [mailto:ironruby-core-bounces at rubyforge.org] On Behalf Of Jim Deville
> Sent: Friday, January 15, 2010 10:15 PM
> To: ironruby-core at rubyforge.org> Subject: Re: [Ironruby-core] rexml/document with IronRuby
>> I don't remember the exact command, but there is a method... SetupSearchPath or something like that (it's on my computer which needs to charge).
>> JD
>>>> From: Orion Edwards <orion.edwards at gmail.com>
> Sent: Friday, January 15, 2010 9:52 PM
> To: ironruby-core at rubyforge.org <ironruby-core at rubyforge.org>
> Subject: Re: [Ironruby-core] rexml/document with IronRuby
>> While I agree that changing the app.config is a common task, and it's easy if you're just shipping a single standalone app, it's a giant pain in the ass if you're having to upgrade an existing installation, or integrate with another program. (Outlook.exe.config anyone??)
> I've seen a fair few .net apps move their configuration OUT of app.config and into the registry because of things like that.
>> Is there a way that we can set the library path and other such things programatically (eg: RubyEngine.LoadPath = "blah"), etc? That would be much nicer than app.config mangling :-(
>> Cheers, Orion
>>> On 16/01/2010, at 8:09 AM, Jimmy Schementi wrote:
>>> This configuration, setting different paths etc is too much a hassle for developers.
>> Let's go over what "configuration, setting different paths etc" actually means:
>> - When using ir.exe directly?
>> Nothing, the Ruby standard library just works.
>> - When embedding IronRuby inside a .NET app?
>> Just telling your C# app where IronRuby's libraries are:
> 1. Copy ir.exe.config into your app.config
> 2. Make sure LibraryPaths still make sense. Making these full-paths is easiest,
> So just replace the ".." with "C:\IronRuby" (or wherever you extracted a IronRuby
> release to ... for example this is the LibraryPaths for a C:\IronRuby installation:
> C:\IronRuby\lib\IronRuby;C:\IronRuby\lib\ruby\site_ruby\1.8;C:\IronRuby\lib\ruby\site_ruby;C:\IronRuby\lib\ruby\1.8
>> And that's it. So please, let me know how this could be too much hassle for you.
> Sure, embedding isn't "one-click", but don't blow it up to be more than it really is.
> Please let us know if you've found any real ship-stopping bugs.
>> Note that ir.exe.config uses relative paths as we have no idea where someone will
> unzip the release to. With the MSI we can possibly generate ir.exe.config to use
> full paths, but that would be very low on our list of stuff to do for 1.0. Also,
> if we release VS integration in the future, generating the correct app.config
> for embedding is also a possibility.
>> However, for embedding, presumably you are going to want to put the libraries
> into your application's directory, so you do really care about where the paths
> are, which is why we don't somehow magically find them.
>> ~Jimmy
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